Prof. Liz Oakley-Brown
@earlymodlancs.bsky.social
Educator
Passionate about Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI)
Anywhere near Books, Music and Films
#SurfaceStudies
#Soil_Imaginaries
Green Party Member
Adores Snails 🐌
My personal views - not my employer's
Reposts &c not endorsements
Passionate about Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI)
Anywhere near Books, Music and Films
#SurfaceStudies
#Soil_Imaginaries
Green Party Member
Adores Snails 🐌
My personal views - not my employer's
Reposts &c not endorsements
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Publication day! Delighted to make my first post here to celebrate this new volume, Care and Contagion in Shakespeare's Changing World. So grateful to my co-editor, Rebecca Totaro, to @ardenpublisher.bsky.social for the stunning production, and to all of our amazing contributors.
November 13, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Publication day! Delighted to make my first post here to celebrate this new volume, Care and Contagion in Shakespeare's Changing World. So grateful to my co-editor, Rebecca Totaro, to @ardenpublisher.bsky.social for the stunning production, and to all of our amazing contributors.
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White Narcissus, Anselmus Boëtius de Boodt, 1596 - 1610 (Rijksmuseum)
November 24, 2025 at 11:02 PM
White Narcissus, Anselmus Boëtius de Boodt, 1596 - 1610 (Rijksmuseum)
Some snail news 🐌
Conservationists unite to save London’s rare 'German' hairy snail - BBC News share.google/CFFJ1dGpXmlA...
Conservationists unite to save London’s rare 'German' hairy snail - BBC News share.google/CFFJ1dGpXmlA...
Conservationists unite to save London’s rare 'German' hairy snail - BBC News
A team is hunting for the finger-sized snail along the River Thames to help recover their numbers.
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November 24, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Some snail news 🐌
Conservationists unite to save London’s rare 'German' hairy snail - BBC News share.google/CFFJ1dGpXmlA...
Conservationists unite to save London’s rare 'German' hairy snail - BBC News share.google/CFFJ1dGpXmlA...
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📢 Register now for our next ASLE-UKI Seminar, Ecopedagogy as Method on 12th December, 4-5:30pm!
Speakers:
Laura Albertini
Hugh Dunkerley
Petra Hansson
Jasmin Kirkbride
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/asle-uki-s...
Speakers:
Laura Albertini
Hugh Dunkerley
Petra Hansson
Jasmin Kirkbride
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/asle-uki-s...
November 19, 2025 at 5:35 PM
📢 Register now for our next ASLE-UKI Seminar, Ecopedagogy as Method on 12th December, 4-5:30pm!
Speakers:
Laura Albertini
Hugh Dunkerley
Petra Hansson
Jasmin Kirkbride
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/asle-uki-s...
Speakers:
Laura Albertini
Hugh Dunkerley
Petra Hansson
Jasmin Kirkbride
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/asle-uki-s...
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It's great to see so many signing up for the @asleuki.bsky.social Online Seminar on Eighteenth-Century Literature and Environment, on 29 Jan 2026, 3-7 pm GMT, but there's still room for more! Further details and registration information at: asle.org.uk/events/semin...
November 24, 2025 at 2:25 PM
It's great to see so many signing up for the @asleuki.bsky.social Online Seminar on Eighteenth-Century Literature and Environment, on 29 Jan 2026, 3-7 pm GMT, but there's still room for more! Further details and registration information at: asle.org.uk/events/semin...
Coda:
My post below refers only to academic staff
My PS colleagues are subject to another timescale
Solidarity ✊️
My post below refers only to academic staff
My PS colleagues are subject to another timescale
Solidarity ✊️
There's still *so much* to do and uncertainty remains in the long-term.
BUT...very grateful to my local union exec @lancasterucu.bsky.social and my LUCU colleagues for getting my employers to remove CR in the very near future
Onwards and Solidarity
BUT...very grateful to my local union exec @lancasterucu.bsky.social and my LUCU colleagues for getting my employers to remove CR in the very near future
Onwards and Solidarity
What a gorgeous photograph !
Taking this vibe into the new week
Taking this vibe into the new week
November 24, 2025 at 10:40 AM
Coda:
My post below refers only to academic staff
My PS colleagues are subject to another timescale
Solidarity ✊️
My post below refers only to academic staff
My PS colleagues are subject to another timescale
Solidarity ✊️
There's still *so much* to do and uncertainty remains in the long-term.
BUT...very grateful to my local union exec @lancasterucu.bsky.social and my LUCU colleagues for getting my employers to remove CR in the very near future
Onwards and Solidarity
BUT...very grateful to my local union exec @lancasterucu.bsky.social and my LUCU colleagues for getting my employers to remove CR in the very near future
Onwards and Solidarity
What a gorgeous photograph !
Taking this vibe into the new week
Taking this vibe into the new week
African buffalo are one of the most dangerous animals in Africa. They can way 900 kg and are apparently considered grumpy.
I’d be grumpy too if I had to carry a bunch of yelling red-billed oxpeckers around all the time!
This bull was slowly eating his way down the Sabi River in Kruger Park, SA
I’d be grumpy too if I had to carry a bunch of yelling red-billed oxpeckers around all the time!
This bull was slowly eating his way down the Sabi River in Kruger Park, SA
November 24, 2025 at 10:13 AM
There's still *so much* to do and uncertainty remains in the long-term.
BUT...very grateful to my local union exec @lancasterucu.bsky.social and my LUCU colleagues for getting my employers to remove CR in the very near future
Onwards and Solidarity
BUT...very grateful to my local union exec @lancasterucu.bsky.social and my LUCU colleagues for getting my employers to remove CR in the very near future
Onwards and Solidarity
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In honour of Delia Derbyshire Day, a little post about her collaboration at the BBC with the poet Rosemary Tonks @deliaderbyshireday.bsky.social someflowerssoon.substack.com/p/i-stop-bei...
"I Stop Being Human"
Rosemary Tonks, Delia Derbyshire and the BBC Radiophonic Workshop
someflowerssoon.substack.com
November 23, 2025 at 10:58 AM
In honour of Delia Derbyshire Day, a little post about her collaboration at the BBC with the poet Rosemary Tonks @deliaderbyshireday.bsky.social someflowerssoon.substack.com/p/i-stop-bei...
Wonderful to see you here.
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November 23, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Wonderful to see you here.
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Here's the latest pic of "Daphne"
(17/11/2025)
(17/11/2025)
November 23, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Here's the latest pic of "Daphne"
(17/11/2025)
(17/11/2025)
An especially brilliant issue of the always brilliant 'Green Letters ' @asleuki.bsky.social
arrived in the post this week 👇
#OvidAlert
share.google/5bgc3TP9XQFg...
arrived in the post this week 👇
#OvidAlert
share.google/5bgc3TP9XQFg...
Green Letters
Trees in Ancient Greek and Roman Poetry: An Ecocritical Approach to Classics. Volume 29, Issue 2 of Green Letters
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November 23, 2025 at 10:57 AM
An especially brilliant issue of the always brilliant 'Green Letters ' @asleuki.bsky.social
arrived in the post this week 👇
#OvidAlert
share.google/5bgc3TP9XQFg...
arrived in the post this week 👇
#OvidAlert
share.google/5bgc3TP9XQFg...
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“If you go back a million minutes, you reach 2023. Go back a billion minutes, you reach the Roman Empire — that’s the scale of inequality we’re living with.”
Zack Polanski on #BBCLauraK discussing inequality and why a wealth tax should be in the budget
Zack Polanski on #BBCLauraK discussing inequality and why a wealth tax should be in the budget
November 23, 2025 at 10:31 AM
“If you go back a million minutes, you reach 2023. Go back a billion minutes, you reach the Roman Empire — that’s the scale of inequality we’re living with.”
Zack Polanski on #BBCLauraK discussing inequality and why a wealth tax should be in the budget
Zack Polanski on #BBCLauraK discussing inequality and why a wealth tax should be in the budget
My university colleague Jess Davies on the importance of soil sustainability 👇👇👇
#Soil_Imaginaries
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#Soil_Imaginaries
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How soil could help us reach climate targets
From Paris in 2015 to Belem in Brazil in 2025, soil is slowly becoming part of climate policy but more can be done.
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November 23, 2025 at 10:48 AM
My university colleague Jess Davies on the importance of soil sustainability 👇👇👇
#Soil_Imaginaries
share.google/1yzGPByQiaLm...
#Soil_Imaginaries
share.google/1yzGPByQiaLm...
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As the climate emergency begins to bite a few world leaders meet with a lot of fossil fuel lobbyists and can't even agree that fossil fuels are a problem. Truly frightening. We need radical action not weak willed leaders scared to stand up to the rich and powerful.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
COP30: UN climate talks fail to secure new fossil fuel promises
Nearly 200 countries attended COP30, which aimed to commit the world to take more action on climate change.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 23, 2025 at 10:11 AM
As the climate emergency begins to bite a few world leaders meet with a lot of fossil fuel lobbyists and can't even agree that fossil fuels are a problem. Truly frightening. We need radical action not weak willed leaders scared to stand up to the rich and powerful.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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"The first sighting of a pine marten in Studland, Dorset, in more than a century!" swanage.news/rare-and-end...
November 19, 2025 at 1:36 PM
"The first sighting of a pine marten in Studland, Dorset, in more than a century!" swanage.news/rare-and-end...
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Here I reflect on how Baldwin's writing unsettled my fixed idea of linear European time, which traps us into repeating history's evil patterns. 'Instead of speaking about the civil rights movement, let us pretend that I am a survivor of the latest slave rebellion.'
folukeafrica.com/me-james-bal...
folukeafrica.com/me-james-bal...
Me, James Baldwin and the Un-fragmenting of Euro-modern Time
Or how do we enter into a time present, of things future?
folukeafrica.com
November 18, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Here I reflect on how Baldwin's writing unsettled my fixed idea of linear European time, which traps us into repeating history's evil patterns. 'Instead of speaking about the civil rights movement, let us pretend that I am a survivor of the latest slave rebellion.'
folukeafrica.com/me-james-bal...
folukeafrica.com/me-james-bal...
What a gorgeous photograph !
Taking this vibe into the new week
Taking this vibe into the new week
African buffalo are one of the most dangerous animals in Africa. They can way 900 kg and are apparently considered grumpy.
I’d be grumpy too if I had to carry a bunch of yelling red-billed oxpeckers around all the time!
This bull was slowly eating his way down the Sabi River in Kruger Park, SA
I’d be grumpy too if I had to carry a bunch of yelling red-billed oxpeckers around all the time!
This bull was slowly eating his way down the Sabi River in Kruger Park, SA
November 23, 2025 at 10:40 AM
What a gorgeous photograph !
Taking this vibe into the new week
Taking this vibe into the new week
🎛️🥳 Happy Delia Derbyshire 🥳🎛️ lots of stuff on our website! deliaderbyshireday.com/dd-day-2025-...
DD Day 2025 worldwide!
DD Day 2025 worldwide!
deliaderbyshireday.com
November 23, 2025 at 10:39 AM
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This week, a first-year undergraduate told me their favourite period of EngLit is early modern and they particularly loved Richard Barnfield's writing (which we don't teach). I was thrilled to direct them to your amazing collection of essays 😀
November 23, 2025 at 10:25 AM
This week, a first-year undergraduate told me their favourite period of EngLit is early modern and they particularly loved Richard Barnfield's writing (which we don't teach). I was thrilled to direct them to your amazing collection of essays 😀
Such a beautiful, brilliant book! Many congratulations 🎊
November 23, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Such a beautiful, brilliant book! Many congratulations 🎊
Me too: I learned a great deal
November 23, 2025 at 10:11 AM
Me too: I learned a great deal
Looks terrific ! Congratulations 🎊
November 23, 2025 at 10:11 AM
Looks terrific ! Congratulations 🎊
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THis is still a major victory! It shows that exposing management's unsound financial decision-making alongside tireless organising and pressure works! We hope this sends a message of strength and solidarity to sister unions accross the sector✊
November 21, 2025 at 9:18 PM
THis is still a major victory! It shows that exposing management's unsound financial decision-making alongside tireless organising and pressure works! We hope this sends a message of strength and solidarity to sister unions accross the sector✊